Sentence examples for undercut provisions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bond said that Democrats were offering a "revisionist history" of the legislation to undercut provisions to which they objected.

Bipartisan majorities in the House passed two more damaging bills last week that would undercut provisions in Dodd-Frank to rein in derivatives, the complex financial instruments at the heart of the financial crisis.

Industry lobbyists — and sympathetic members of Congress — are pushing for provisions to undercut a central pillar of the legislation, known as the Volcker Rule, which would forbid banks from using their own money to make risky wagers on the market and would force them to sell off hedge funds and private equity units.

Those new contracts would undercut seniority and pay provisions that Hanley and the drivers say are crucial to maintaining standards in the city's bus system.

Mr. Klein argued that the provision would undercut Mr. Obama's job creation plans.

Then, on June 30, in a radical and out-of-touch decision, the United States Supreme Court undercut this common-sense provision by ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that closely held corporations espousing sincerely held religious beliefs could not be bound by the ACA's contraceptive mandate.

But in practice many key provisions have been undercut by a lack of collaboration between government agencies.

"Bush has made it very clear that he plans to undo and undercut and weaken the very provisions that have given us the environmental progress we have had in the last several decades," Ms. Sease said.

The GOP tax bill contains several provisions that will undercut America's colleges and universities.

Republicans have insisted that any spending measure include provisions that would undercut President Obama's new healthcare law, a major part of which — the online marketplaces where Americans can purchase insurance — became operational Tuesday morning.

WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators working on a bipartisan highway funding bill may include a controversial provision that would undercut new mortgage rules, according to sources close to the talks.